The shape of things: JFK Turner

Turner begins by gathering objects from our modern world, such as fragments of plastic and scraps of carboard. The objects are lost and found; strange and familiar. Turner converts these three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images through a variety of approaches, including orthographic projection, drawing, a photogram and a collagraph. These images are reconstructed from unconventional artistic materials, such as wax, carboard boxes, nails and roof titles. This echoes Rauschenberg’s belief that ‘painting is more like the real world if it’s made out of the real world’.